Speckled Green

Just for my sake, and just because I can, I think I’ll finish writing up some draft posts I started ages ago about things that are long past, just so that I have it on my blog. Like Band Tour, or Leadership Camp. Sometime in this summer hols. When I finally get bored of playing Assassin’s Creed, Halo 3, ODST, CoD: MW2, and trying to understand how AJAX could be used in my blog theme…

And a Happy New Year!!

Update

Wow, I didn’t think I would be, but the horror movie that a lot of people laughed through has really spooked me. Took till nearly 2 hours after it finished before I felt that I had been spooked. For the type of movie it was (horror??), it’s wasn’t the best, but it was still better than many of the first reviews said. The version being shown in cinemas around the world now is actually the 3rd version of the movie, interestingly.

Anyhows, today was a good day. After graduation, I went with my friends to Castle Towers, where shopping, browsing, general wandering, talking, eating, arguing and eventually watching a movie before going home was the activities of the day. I shan’t bother going into greater description of the day. I don’t look forward to the formal. Well, I do look forward to it, I’m sure it’ll be great. I just feel really nervous about it, I always feel nervous about social events like that.

Thanks to my friends for a great school year, btw!!

Internet Explorer is still the annoying, non-standards-compliant and oddly rendering web browser it always has been. Yeah, sure, each incarnation of it slowly gets slightly better. They still suck. Look at my blog for example. It works perfectly fine on the Webkit, Gecko and Khtml engines (Apple Safari & Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, other-types-I-can’t-be-bothered-remembering-at-this-time respectively) and looks ok. The moment it ran through Trident 7 or 8 (Internet Explorer 7 or 8 respectively), it just died. Short of killing Internet Explorer, I’ve taken to starting to write an entirely separate style sheet for IE. No, that doesn’t mean it’s special, it means it needs special attention because it cannot be normal. Like the people with disabilities I guess. It is normal except for it’s disability to work like everyone else.

And so that I’ll stop ranting about that, I’ll just say I’m shocked that at around 1am this morning, some bot spammed my website, with 81 comments. 1 a minute. How odd. Complete waste of time really, because the spam filter I use is quite good.

Drown away your feelings with a little (ok, big) bit of gaming!! Or just go get drunk. Either way.

Yes guys, I know this is kinda creepy, scary, weird, emo or just plain random, but that’s how I feel at this current moment. No, I’m not going to talk about it.

A quick, little, and hopefully brighter note than what I’ve been recently posting.
I’ve updated my theme! Now it is in its 3rd beta, and is completely XHTML Valid. Although, if you were to check it with the validator, the Akismet widget will turn up 2 errors. Need to talk to those guys about that.

Also, I’ve taken your advice Sticky. Now there is content in the sidebar when you load the page. Talking about loading the page, the tool in Google Chrome to compare the size of the files for a website doesn’t work for WordPress pages it seems… I swear it kept saying my website was -4B, yes, that’s right, minus four bytes. Odd…

I collated the background images for the buttons into one image to save on download time and to stop the browser having to request the image when sometimes uses a button, rather than before. So now, you don’t get a flash of the image not being there!

Now, unless there’s something else I’d like to add to the theme, time to work on making it friendly to mobile browsers…

Regrets are a powerful thing. They haunt you continuously. You are never really free of them. They’ll find some way to come back to you, whether as an old regret, or as a new one, freshly made from your choices. For hours, days and weeks, you sulk, brood and think over them, they take your every waking moment, sliding to the back for a moment as you talk to someone, before returning the moment your attention wanes.

As they enter the crazy workings of your mind, they bloat, and befuddle you. If you have a simple mind, they are alarmingly obvious. In the complex mind, they become part of the confusion, quickly working they way to the front, seeking your attention. You try to work them out. Possibilities abound. You go back to the choices you feel made them, and try to imagine if you had done something else, it would’ve been different. It becomes repetitive, frequent, and confusing. Read more »

Someone either just kill me when I’m not expecting it, or completely destroy this world. I can’t stand the stress of having to live. I feel like going to sleep. At least then I don’t have to live with the rest of the world, only my crazy dreams which I barely ever remember (probably a good thing, I have this feeling that they aren’t very nice dreams to stay in). And don’t say this is an emo post. I just feel destroyed. That’s all. Ok??

Maybe I’m going crazy. Whatever it is, I hate it. I hate it I hate it I hate it. It’s driving me nuts, and I feel like I’m going in circles, driving myself nuts more and more as I think over it and live through the horrible days of my life, experiencing stuff which drives it further into my mind, creating such annoying, stupid, painful…. umm…. pain.

Feels better to have got some of that steam out, or perhaps some of the craziness that is my mind out on paper, electronic or otherwise.